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Has anyone ever had success using the IN FILE filter operator in a DEFINE or COMPUTE. It may be designed to only work with the WHERE statement of a report filter, but I thought I've gotten this to work in the past. I know that an IF used in a DEFINE behaves more like a WHERE than an IF when used as a report filter as far as sytax. Any thoughts are appreciated, thanks!

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In a DEFINE/COMPUTE, you don't use IN FILE, use DDNAME:

From the Manual:

  
TABLE FILE EDUCFILE
PRINT EMP_ID
ON TABLE HOLD
END
TABLE FILE EMPLOYEE
PRINT EMP_ID AND LAST_NAME AND FIRST_NAME AND COMPUTE 
NOT_IN_LIST/I1 = DECODE EMP_ID(HOLD ELSE 1); 
WHERE DEPARTMENT EQ 'MIS';
END
The output is:

EMP_ID     LAST_NAME        FIRST_NAME  NOT_IN_LIST
------     ---------        ----------  -----------
112847612  SMITH            MARY                  0
117593129  JONES            DIANE                 0
219984371  MCCOY            JOHN                  1
326179357  BLACKWOOD        ROSEMARIE             0
543729165  GREENSPAN        MARY                  1
818692173  CROSS            BARBARA               0


hth


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Yes, now I remember seeing that technique in the DECODE section. It's been awhile since I did that, but I knew that I used a reference to a file in a DEFINE.


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Or as mentioned in another post, DB_LOOKUP


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